Until this point, you really can't talk about a Jewish people.

You certainly can't talk about a nation.

They've never occupied a piece of territory.

They've had the promise of that as a heritage.

We're watching God's initiation of forming a group of people into a common heritage, a common set of values.

They're going to get the Ten Commandments. They're going to get a tabernacle. They're going to get

rules of worship. The idea of how to approach God, God is going to take a group of people that have

been enslaved for hundreds of years and fashion them into a people with a self-identity centered

in the worship of Almighty God.

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Be blessed.

We've been walking through a series under this general theme of Let's Eat.

For those of you familiar with the church, we spent several extended period of time with an idea around let's pray,

trying to take prayer outside the walls of a formal religious service or just a traditional place

where you would look for prayer and integrated into our lives.

And let's eat is kind of a companion to that,

trying to understand the spiritual authority of our homes.

And the significant role that I believe the kitchen table plays in that,

and the authority that's expressed around that table,

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